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green sheet when they think it isn’t. You may wish to start with silly examples like an elephant in your living room or a tree growing through the window into our classroom. With smaller groups you may choose to make one wall in the room “pest” and the other wall “NOT a pest.” Instruct the students to run or walk to the correct wall. Step 3: Craft Activity. Students choose one plant or animal. At the top of the page each student writes “Name of living thing can be:.” Divide the bottom half of the page into two sections. On one section write “a pest” and on the other section write a useful purpose for the animal (food, pollinator, decomposer, etc.). Draw pictures for each option. One adaptation of this activity is to make flaps to go over the pictures. Cut out the flaps from another piece of paper and tape or glue the top edge to the paper. A mouse can be: Enrichment Ask students to write a story about an animal (real or pretend) that becomes a pest when it goes to the wrong place. Supplemental Worksheets From The Minnesota Department of Agriculture IPM Program, Join Our Pest Patrol-A Backyard Activity Book for Kids- An Adventure in IPM http://www.mda.state.mn.us/IPM/IPMPubs.html 1. What’s a Pest? http://www.mda.state.mn.us/ IPM/PestPatrol/WhatsAPest.pdf 2. Insect Pests and Pals http:// www.mda.state.mn.us/IPM/PestPatrol/ PestsAndPals.pdf Answers: http://www.mda.state.mn.us/IPM/ PestPatrol/Answers.pdf a pest food Step 4: Complete The Story. Start by saying a sentence about an animal to the class. For example, one day an elephant decided to go to the city. Go around the room and have each student add a sentence to the story. It can get very silly. Closure/Assessment: Ask the students what a pest is and what makes it a pest. Give students examples of pests, and ask for suggestions on what to do. For example: If I find a ladybug in my living room what could I do? Take it outside. If I see poison ivy in the woods, what should I do? Stay away. 14 Exploring Urban Integrated Pest Management Michigan State University Pesticide Education, 2001
When is a pest not a pest? Teacher suggestions: The following are some examples for the Pest or NOT a Pest game in step two. As part of the activity, randomly read the name of an organism and where it is or what it is doing. Feel free to develop your own examples and embellish the ones below. For example, say: a rabbit eating the lettuce in my garden. Name Pest Not a Pest raccoon In house, garage, garbage cans forest mosquito biting us, spreading diseases food for bats and fish maggots making meat or vegetables rotten decomposing dead animals termites eating houses or buildings decomposing wood in forests rabbits garden field or woods deer in a cornfield, in your garden forest algae covering a pond food for fish mouse house, spreading diseases food for snakes, other animals fruit flies inside flying around fruit eating rotting fruit on the floor of an orchard bees sting us pollinating flowers and making honey lady beetle inside your house outside, eating aphids and other small insects house fly annoy us, spread disease food for birds, decompose animal waste Adapted from: “When is a Pest Not a Pest” in Jeffords, M.R. & Hodgins, A.S., 1995. Pests Have Enemies Too: Teaching Young Scientists About Biological Control, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL, special publication 18. Exploring Urban Integrated Pest Management 15 Michigan State University Pesticide Education, 2001
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